Bob Backlund Quotes

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• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Lost

• Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Children
  • Eyes

• These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Enemies
  • Terrorists

• I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Children
  • Eyes

• Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Why

• So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Enemy

• We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Cities
  • Deadline
  • Areas

• If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

  

  George Eliot
  • Friends
  • Trouble
  • Labour

• I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Crew
  • Flights
  • Interactions

• The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Emotions
  • Benefits
  • Skills

• We live in fear when we've forgotten how to act from a place of love. Remember that, and set intention to act from a place of no comparison, jealousy, or fear. Police yourself on this!

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Remember
  • Police
  • Forgotten

• It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Run
  • Invest

• There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Joy
  • Fair
  • Useful

• The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I'm making the comeback of the century.

  

  Bob Backlund
  • Century
  • Comebacks